It's a fair question. Part of the answer is that elected Republicans
failed for years to seriously engage with the question of how to
replace the health care law they campaigned so adamantly against.
But it's also an exercise in calculated blame shifting, one that
demonstrates how little the president understands about the policy
process. In other words, it's the entire party's fault.

Let us not forget to blame irresponsible voters, who continue to
demand that Other People's Money be used to pay for things they
think they have a "right" to.

■ Jonah Goldberg's G-File this week is Nork
Agonistes. Some fun with the WSJ reporting "what happens
to markets in the event of an all-out nuclear war."

From the article in the Wall Street Journal, not The
Onion: “Strategists at Nordea Markets estimate that
in the unlikely event of ‘a potentially uncontained military
conflict’ in which global superpowers like China and Russia get
involved, the European Central Bank would have to implement ‘highly
dovish forward guidance’ and the yield curve would likely flatten
due to weaker risk appetite.”

Oh, well, as long as the ECB will be issuing “highly dovish forward guidance” as the rest of us drink glowing puddle water and fight over rat meat, what is there to worry about?

He has more serious thoughts as well, assessing Kim
Jong Un's options and rationality.

I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote
and circulated internally raising questions about cultural taboos
and how they cloud our thinking about gender diversity at the
company and in the wider tech sector. I suggested that at least some
of the male-female disparity in tech could be attributed to
biological differences (and, yes, I said that bias against women was
a factor too). Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai declared that
portions of my statement violated the company’s code of conduct and
“cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our
workplace.”

And, of course, the word "heresy" appears, because it's accurate.
There's a nice picture of Damore with a "Goolag" t-shirt. (Which is
also our image du jour, which is not new: it's from 2006.)

■ And we rarely link to Instapundit here, because so many of his
posts are simply pointers to elsewhere. But there's a longish post
from Ed Driscoll on (there's that meme again) the Google
Archipelago.

[…] the world's biggest search engine is well on its way to becoming
The Google Archipelago. In an article Orwellianly titled “Internal
Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s
Manifesto” (heaven Lenin forefend — root out the hoarders
and wreckers!) in Wired, which began as a
libertarian-leaning publication before being purchased by the
lefties at Condé Nast, the writer quotes from an anonymous Google
employee. “‘Let's take a step back,’ the Googler wrote, ‘and look at what is actually making everyone in Google upset on this thread and in general since the start of the 2016 election season.’ He went on to describe how the apparent uniformity of thought at Google led people like Damore to feel ‘like they are being forcibly dragged into [sic] ideological indoctrination chamber,’” including these passages that sound like mash notes smuggled out of the Ministry of Truth:

Yale University has covered up a musket on a stone carving depicting a hostile interaction between a Puritan settler and an American Indian, leaving the latter’s bow and arrow uncovered.

Pictures at the link, and I'm not sure how they justified leaving
the bow and arrow uncovered. But I'll try to pay attention long
enough to find…zzzzz

■ And, finally VA Viper celebration of all things Schrödinger,
including the Box,
on the 230th anniversary of his birth. Long on jokes. For example,
stop me if you've heard this,
Schrödinger is pulled over by a cop:

The cop insists on searching the car […] and then asks Schrödinger, "Do
you know you have a dead cat in the trunk?",

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